Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,445 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Kenton Wesley Keith (1939- )
Charles Walter Dryden (Tuskegee Airmen Photo)
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Charles Walter Dryden (1920-2008)
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Eric Pettigrew (1960- )
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John Kenneth Blackwell (1948- )

Explore Global African History

Mayann Francis
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Mayann Elizabeth Francis (1946- )
Earl Whaley's Orchestra Over Shanghai, ca 1937
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The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period
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Leone Jacovacci (1902–1983)
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Mariama Bâ (1929-1981)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Roman Slavery and the Question of Race
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours
Kansas Runaway
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“Blazing a Path to Freedom: African Americans and Their White Allies in Bleeding Kansas”
NIH Poster on Race and Mental Illness
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Mental Illness in Black Community, 1700-2019: A Short History

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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